Present Production by America Only Third of Beich Manufacture; Ca-ordination Scheme Now Planned Washington, Oct. 16.
The United States could equal Ger-(many's rate of production of aeroplanes and the quality of the craft would be superior authoritative quarters here declared today.
However, there is no question of the U.S. trying to raise its production at present. Germany is now putting out 1000 planes per month and the United States' production is only about a third of this but production rate could speedily be raised to 1,000 by standardization of certain types of planes and by changes in factories and spare-parts plants.
Military experts interested in this field have already submitted detailed plans to the War Department, These plans provide for the placement of contracts, when the necessity arises, with about 10,000 factories producing everything from munitions to the smallest articles of military equipment.
The programme of industrial mobilization already laid out by Mr.
Louis Johnson, Assistant War Seeretary, is understood to include provisions for mass production of aeroplanes. Details of this programme remain strictly confidential.
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